xxix, 479 pages : 25 cm

"A valuable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists, this new edition of the popular calendars book expands the treatment of the previous edition to new calendar variants: generic cyclical calendars and astronomical lunar calendars as well as the Korean, Vietnamese, Aztec, and Tibetan calendars. The authors frame the calendars of the world in a completely algorithmic form, allowing easy conversion among these calendars and the determination of secular and religious holidays. LISP and Java code for all the algorithms are available on the Web."--Publisher's description

Revised edition of: Calendrical calculations / Edward M. Reingold, Nachum Dershowitz. Millennium ed

Includes bibliographical references and index

Calendar basics -- I: ARITHMETICAL CALENDARS: The Gregorian Calendar -- The Julian Calendar -- The Coptic and Ethiopian Calendars -- The DSO Calendar -- The Islamic Calendar -- The Hebrew Calendar -- The Ecclesiastical calendars -- The Old Hindu calendars -- The Mayan calendars -- The Balinese Pawukon Calendar -- Generic cyclical calendars -- II: ASTRONOMICAL CALENDARS: Time and astronomy -- The Persian calendar -- The Baha'i Calendar -- The French Revolutionary Calendar -- The Chinese Calendar -- The Modern Hindu calendars -- The modern Hindu calendars -- The Tibetan Calendar -- Astronomical lunar calendars -- Coda -- III: APPENDICES: A: Function, parameter, and constant types -- B: Lisp implementation -- C: Sample data

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